Another new (older) spell!!!

[Jimlock]

Ok... after Dilreen's Disorientation, i present you with another of Dilreen's creations.... Dilreen's Contained speech!

Unlike Disorientation, this one has been playtested and used for about a year in a couple of my games without a problem...

Tell me what you think..


Dilreen’s Contained Speech
Evocation
Level: Sor/Wiz 0
Components: S,M
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Personal
Area: 5 feet radius emanation centered on the caster
Duration: 1 round (the next round after the spell has been cast)
Saving Throw: None

Upon casting this spell an invisible 5 feet radius spherical force surrounds the caster. During the next round, all words spoken by the caster cannot be heard beyond the spell’s area of effect.
Precisely, all sound deriving from the caster’s vocal cords is contained within the volume of the sphere, no matter how loud the caster speaks, yells or screams.
Any other sound made by the caster or another person/object within the sphere cannot be blocked and is normally heard beyond the spell’s range.
Thus, if the caster chooses to cast a spell with a verbal component, the spell takes effect normally since the correct words are spoken loud and clear within the sphere’s volume,
only that the sound of his voice does not travel further than 5 feet since it is clogged by the invisible sphere.
Dilreen’s contained speech does not overcome the effects of silence, nor does it allow the caster to speak in an environment or under any circumstances
that would normally deprive him of speech (e.g. underwater, polymorphed etc.). It simply contains the caster’s voice within the spell’s area of effect.
Material Component: A pinch of compressed wool.

My Character has been using it mainly so as to cast illusions or other spells without being heard in order to create various (off-combat) diversions...

 

[lordxaviar]

sort of a cone of silence... interesting.. silent spell with out having to kick it up a lv.

 

[Jimlock]

sort of a cone of silence...

Area: 5 feet radius emanation centered on the caster

silent spell with out having to kick it up a lv.

Dilreen’s contained speech does not overcome the effects of silence, nor does it allow the caster to speak in an environment or under any circumstances
that would normally deprive him of speech (e.g. underwater, polymorphed etc.). It simply contains the caster’s voice within the spell’s area of effect.

...in case you missed those..

 

[Rhun]

I wouldn't have a problem with the spell.

 

[Jimlock]

I wouldn't have a problem with the spell.

...well....when i play wizard-ish characters i use a lot of illusion spells like ghost sound and silent image related ones... and i always had trouble with the fact that whenever my characters did want to create a distraction, a diversion or even an entirely false scenery while hidden, there was always this damn verbal component ready to give them away... so that's how i came up with it....

I've also used it a couple of times in dungeons where my character wanted to give a short instruction/information to some other PC without disturbing the noisiness....but this use i did not foresee when making the spell!...

...Now when the guards chase you down the road and you want to create the sound of some false footsteps the other way so as to loose them...it's possible without being heard!!

 

[lordxaviar]

Area: 5 feet radius emanation centered on the caster

no didnt miss it.. was a get smart reference...joke

Dilreen’s contained speech does not overcome the effects of silence, nor does it allow the caster to speak in an environment or under any circumstances
that would normally deprive him of speech (e.g. underwater, polymorphed etc.). It simply contains the caster’s voice within the spell’s area of effect.

...in case you missed those..

no got that too... was generalizing... and you left out the meta magic angle.. dont have any prob with spell... too bad they wouldnt consider it, they being all high and mighty hasbro... think it would be good. dwld it

 

[Dandu]

You mean 5ft diameter, not radius.

 

[Jimlock]

You mean 5ft diameter, not radius.

heh...

In the original text I've got it written down as a 7.5 feet radius. (that's a 9 block square with the caster in the center). I changed the 7.5 to 5 when i posted the spell here so as to not make it look......confusing...(?) (So as to avoid questions like: "what the hell is a 7.5 radius?")...
Although it makes cense that such a radius does not exist because we always start counting from a corner... well I thought i'd be logical to create such a radius for using with small spheres centered on the caster.
With a bigger radius it is not so apparent that the caster is off center. With a 5 feet radius... well it looks weirdly off center.
Mind you I only use the 7.5 radius for this spell only...
so this is one part of your answer...



As to why i gave it a 7.5 radius and not a 5 feet diameter... there are two reasons for that:
The first one might sound a little stupid but i'll say it anyway... well i wanted to give verbal components some "air" so that the spells work properly... a 5' diameter...seemed... too contained...
Second reason is that I wanted the spell to be a little challenging to use, taking into account that it's just a cantrip... In small rooms and places it might prove a little tricky to use..

So there you have the whole backstory....

 

[lordxaviar]

hell you could make it a 5" radius if centered on the mouth it really doesnt matter does it. the area could be "caster" or "one caster" and ends that.

 

[Jimlock]

hell you could make it a 5" radius if centered on the mouth it really doesnt matter does it. the area could be "caster" or "one caster" and ends that.

All true

On the other hand... D&D is all about getting paranoid with small things that don't really matter!